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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knuckles281" data-source="post: 382184" data-attributes="member: 10338">I got the install done, I took some pictures but I can't post them until I get my usb cable back from my roommate. The install was surprisingly irritating, mostly because if you do it the way that they want to, it will look retarded, so I kinda of had to figure out a way for it to work.The seat delete comes in two parts, the back and the seat part. They are made of something (IDK, it looks like wood, but it's woven and super flimsy) which is not very strong. The kit comes with two wooden dowels that are screwed in vertically to the brackets on the bottom where you unbolted the back seat. The purpose of these is to hold up the 'seat' portion of the seat delete in the back. However, the dowels come the wrong size. I had to cut a significant amount off them to get them to the right height, so that the seat would look level. The front of the 'seat' portion attaches to the carpet via velcro, which is kinda neat cause you can just pull it up if you ever wanted to put anything under there or take it out completely for any reason.The 'back' part is where the problems arise. On the headrest in the backseat there are 3 plastic tabs which are used to hold it to the backseat when it is bolted in. However, since the backseat is removed you no longer have anything to bolt the headrest to. The kit's solution to this is to place the back portion of the seat delete in place, and then set the headrest down so that the existing brackets overlap the seat delete. Then you drill the holes (through the seat delete, into the bracket on the headrest, and through the seat crossmember behind it), bolt the pieces together, and be done.If you're like me though, this is completely unacceptable, mainly because 3 plastic tabs and stainless steel bolts don't look good over a black carpeted seat delete. If you do it their way, the hardware is completely visible. For those of you who want to install the kit without the ugliness, here's what I did to remedy the problem.1. Bolt the headrest to the crossmember where the backseat was originally. To do this, line up the headrest in the center, using the tabs as templates, stick your drillbit through them and drill a hole in the metal behind them (this is called the 'backseat crossmember' in the instructions in the kit). Then, used the bolts supplied in the kit to bolt the headrest to the car.2. Now, go to wal-mart or wherever and buy some stick on velcro. Take the 'rough' portion of the velcro, cut off 3 pieces, and stick them to the headrest tabs (the two you bolted through, and the one that is left over in the center). Then put the back portion of the seat delete in. The carpet overlap on the top will grip the velcro piece, holding it in rather nicely from the back, leaving you with a clean look and no visible tabs. I know this is kind of hard to imagine without pictures, but I'll try to get some up within the next couple of days so that maybe it's a little bit clearer...</blockquote>